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Blog status update (July 2024): The blog turns 14
July 23, 2024
Photo by WOCinTech Chat (Flickr / CC BY / cropped from original) Time for another blog status update post. The blog turns 14 This month marks the 14th...
2023 comic sales down 7% from last year
July 20, 2024
Photo by emiliefarrisphotos (Pixabay) ICv2 has released its annual North American comics sales report for 2023. Below’s a look at 2023 estimated overall...
RIP Redbox
July 16, 2024
"Redbox At CVS Brickell" by Phillip Pessar is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr, cropped from original) A few weeks ago, I noted that Chicken Soup For the...
Paramount to merge with Skydance
July 13, 2024
"Paramount Studios Los Angeles" by Tips For Travellers is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Flickr) Early this week, another major media merger was announced:...
Cartoons featuring people of color in the Olympics
July 9, 2024
Photo by Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Flickr / CC BY) The Olympics are a popular topic in animation and comics, just as it is in media in...
A look at streaming services' profile avatars (2024 edition)
July 2, 2024
"Amazon Prime Video Streaming (40845733273)" by Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr / cropped from original) It’s been a...
July 2024 media picks and news
June 29, 2024
Photo by Bryan Turner on Unsplash Here’s a look at what media of interest is coming out in July 2024. DVDs/Blu-rays A list of major releases is available...
What are the biggest Comcast franchises?
June 26, 2024
Image, left to right: "Jason Bourne," "Jurassic Park," and "Despicable Me." (Universal/Illumination) Rounding out the major American media conglomerates,...
The 10 most-watched Netflix cartoons (July-December 2023)
June 22, 2024
Image, left to right: "Yu Yu Hakusho" (Crunchyroll) / "CoComelon" (Moonbug Entertainment) / "Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse" (Mattel) As a follow up to my...
How to block AI crawlers from your site
June 18, 2024
Image by Mudassar Iqbal from Pixabay Artificial intelligence (AI) companies have to get their data from somewhere… unfortunately, that includes scraping...
Noteworthy asexual cartoon characters
June 15, 2024
Image: "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Nickelodeon); "Jughead" vol. 1, art by Erica Henderson (Archie) Asexual characters don’t appear often in animation, and even...
Apple 2024 WWDC keynote: The iPad finally gets a calculator app; Apple's all in on AI (unfortunately)
June 12, 2024
Image: Apple On Monday, Apple held its annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote address, announcing its latest software features. Below are my...
7 noteworthy transgender characters in cartoons
June 8, 2024
Image, left to right: "Lumberjanes" (art by ND Stevenson)(Boom! Studios); "Dead End: Paranormal Park" (Netflix); Koi Boi (art by Derek Charm)(Marvel) There...
Blog status update (June 2024): The blogroll returns, plus blogging vs. AI and social media
June 4, 2024
Photo by Ketut Subiyanto (Pexels) Since it’s been awhile (and I needed a topic to write about), here’s another blog status update. Bringing back… a blogroll?...
June 2024 media picks and news
June 1, 2024
Photo by Tony Schnagl (Pexels) Here’s a look at media of interest coming out in June 2024. Movies Inside Out 2, June 14 Hulu A full list is available here....
What are the biggest Paramount franchises?
May 28, 2024
"Paramount Studios Los Angeles" by Tips For Travellers is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Flickr) In the spirit of my look at Disney and Warner Bros.’s biggest...
A look at Google alternatives (2024 edition)
May 21, 2024
"Google Headquarters in Ireland Building Sign" by Outreach Pete is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr / cropped from original) Google, Microsoft, and what...
What are the 10 biggest Disney franchises?
May 18, 2024
Image, left to right: "Steamboat Willie"; "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"; "The Princess and the Frog." (Disney) Awhile ago, I looked at Warner Bros.’s 10 top...
Disney and Warner Bros. to offer a Disney+/Hulu/Max bundle
May 14, 2024
Image: Disney+ and Max logos. (Disney / Warner Bros.) Last week, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced that starting later in 2024, Disney+ will offer...
Cartoon review: "Cyberchase"
May 11, 2024
Image: "Cyberchase" cast. (WNET New York) Today’s cartoon review is a look at the long-running PBS Kids animated series “Cyberchase.” The series debuted in...
Jack Dorsey leaves Bluesky, calls Twitter "freedom technology"
May 7, 2024
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, is no longer on the board of Bluesky, as the social network has confirmed. Dorsey’s...
MeTV to launch animation TV network spin-off, "MeTV Toons"
May 4, 2024
Image: MeTV Toons. (Weigel Broadcasting) Big news in the animation and broadcast TV space this week: Weigel Broadcasting (owners of over-the-air nostalgia TV...
The US bans TikTok unless the social network's sold
April 30, 2024
Image: "TikTok on iPhone" by Nordskov Media is marked with CC0 1.0. Last week, President Biden signed into law a bill that gives ByteDance, the China-based...
May 2024 media picks and news
April 27, 2024
Image: Actor Ncuti Gatwa, as the Fifteenth Doctor. (BBC) Here’s a look at what media of interest is coming out in May 2024, plus my thoughts on some recent...
How to filter AI images from Google search results
April 23, 2024
Photo by congerdesign (Pixabay) The artificial intelligence (AI) craze is in full swing, with every tech company trying to shove AI features into its...
Target to scale back in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales
April 20, 2024
"Target" by JeepersMedia is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr / cropped from original) On the heels of Best Buy dropping DVDs comes another big box store...
2023 bookstore graphic novel sales: Viz and Scholastic are still the "Big Two"
April 16, 2024
Image, left to right: "Mary Anne’s Bad Luck Mystery (The Baby-Sitters Club, vol. 13"; art by Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Scholastic) / "Spider-Man: Fake Red," art by...
Where can you buy DVDs and Blu-rays?
April 13, 2024
"Samsung DVD player (front)" by dougbelshaw is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr / cropped from original) Over the past year or so, I’ve resumed buying DVDs...
Tech review: Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+
April 9, 2024
Image from Samsung. Back in 2019, I bought a sixth-generation, entry-level iPad, replacing the several Android/Fire tablets I used through the 2010s. At the...
President Biden is now on the fediverse
April 6, 2024
President Joe Biden. Photo by Governor Tom Wolf (Flickr / CC BY / cropped from original). The “fediverse,” the decentralized, federated social media world...
2023 US music revenue: Vinyl outsells CDs for the second year in a row
April 2, 2024
"Compact Discs" by Brett Jordan is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Flickr / CC BY / cropped from original) The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has...
Disney+ and Hulu officially merge for Disney Bundle subscribers
March 30, 2024
Disney+ main screen with Hulu's "Shogun." (Disney) This week, Disney officially launched (after several months of beta testing) Disney+ with Hulu integrated....
April 2024 media picks and news
March 26, 2024
"Basketballs" by Håkan Dahlström is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr / cropped from original) Here’s a look at what media of interest is coming out for...
Blog status update (March 2024)
March 22, 2024
Image by Thomas Ulrich from Pixabay Time again for another blog status update post. Dropping Google ads (again) For those visiting my site with their ad...
"Across the Spider-Verse," "The Talk" win 2024 NAACP Image Awards
March 19, 2024
Image from "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse." (Marvel/Sony) The 2024 NAACP Image Awards was held last week. The awards, of course, honor African...
"Hailey's On It!," "Star Wars: Doctor Aphra" win 2024 GLAAD Media Awards
March 16, 2024
Image: "Hailey's On It!" (Disney) The first half of this year’s GLAAD Media Awards were held on March 14 in Los Angeles, with the second half scheduled for...
"The Boy and the Heron" wins the 2024 Oscar for Animated Feature
March 12, 2024
Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay The 2024 Academy Awards (aka the Oscars) were held this Sunday. Below, I take my annual look at the animation-related...
What are Warner Bros.' biggest media franchises?
March 8, 2024
Image, left to right: "Space Jam: A New Legacy"; the Justice League of America (art by George Perez); "Scooby-Doo." (Warner Bros.) Warner Bros. has seen...
Alternatives to WordPress.com and Tumblr
March 5, 2024
Image by Werner Moser from Pixabay The online writer/creator world, including yours truly, isn’t pleased with the latest artificial intelligence (AI) related...
March 2024 media picks and news
March 1, 2024
Image from "X-Men '97." (Marvel/Disney) Here’s a look at media of interest for March 2024. Movies Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, March 22 Disney+ A full list...
Leap Day in cartoons
February 27, 2024
"(59).365" by IntoxiKatex is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Flickr / cropped from original) February 29 brings that quadrennial leap year-defining day, Leap Day....
Disney to license North American DVD and Blu-ray distribution to Sony
February 23, 2024
Photo by Mike Mozart. (Flickr / CC BY, cropped from original) Major physical media news was announced this week. Disney and Sony have entered in a deal in...
The most popular cartoons on streaming services in 2023
February 20, 2024
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Traditional TV ratings group Nielsen has expanded into also covering streaming service viewership. To that end, they recently...
Super Bowl LVIII broadcast (and streaming) thoughts
February 13, 2024
"Lombardi Trophies 49ers" by Orbisnonsuficit is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr / cropped from original) It’s time for my annual look at this year’s Super...
2023 US home video revenue: streaming dominates; physical media revenue continues to dwindle
February 9, 2024
Photo by Mohamed Hassan. (Pixabay) Media industry analysis group Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) has released its annual report of US home video revenue...
My thoughts about AI (and why my blog is staying AI-free)
February 6, 2024
Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay Despite artificial intelligence (AI) dominating the tech industry news (and to an extent, media news) for the...
Black History Month and media
February 2, 2024
Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay While I’ve written plenty about African Americans in media, I haven’t written many Black History Month-related posts....
The Mac turns 40
January 30, 2024
"Apple Mac SE" by nostalgianerd is licensed under CC BY 2.0. (Flickr / cropped from original) Last Tuesday, the Mac turned 40 years old. While the Mac has...
February 2024 media picks and news
January 26, 2024
Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay It’s time to look at what media of interest is coming out in February 2024. Disney+ A full list is...
Favorite free and open source software
January 23, 2024
Image by Alexander Gounder from Pixabay Free and open source software (FOSS) plays a major part in modern life, even if the average person’s never heard of...
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